Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2015-04

The April 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community was held on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This is the first of hopefully a series of monthly "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events.

Details

 * Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
 * Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
 * Location: Babycastles. 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011 40.73819°N, -73.99847°W
 * Nearest subway stations: 14th St. (1, 2, 3, F, M, and L trains), Union Square (4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, and R trains)
 * After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery.
 * Hackpad

Agenda
Bring your own ideas!

Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events

 * Local Wikipedia Free Culture Alliance NYC projects
 * Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
 * March: ArtAndFeminism Editathon @ MoMA & @ Babycastles - March 7-8
 * March: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 @ Barnard College - March 22
 * April: AfroLatinoCROWD editathon - April 12

Chapter business

 * Grants Inspire campaign for AfroCROWD and other projects
 * Social media and documentation/newsletter review
 * Wikimedia Conference 2015
 * Wikipedia NYC College Educators Network and student scholarships for WikiConference USA

Future plans

 * Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles and timing
 * May: Writing and Righting History editathon @ The New School - May 1
 * May: Afrofuturism editathon @ The New School - May 3
 * May: Veterans affairs and small business editathon @ NYPL Jefferson Market Library - May 7
 * May: Black Lunch Table editathon @ Studio Museum in Harlem - May 17
 * May: Selections from the Guggenheim Collection editathon @ Guggenheim - May 19
 * May: Women of Jazz editathon by Linked Jazz @ NYPL Performing Arts - May 30
 * June: ArtAndFeminism - Long Island City edition @ The Oracle Club - June 13
 * June: Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting @ Babycastles - June 10 ?
 * July: Wiknic ?
 * TBD: Black Brown & Digital editathon - July or later ?

Keynote
15-20 minutes
 * Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies - Shannon Mattern

Lightning talks
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares Sign up here!
 * AfroCROWD update Aliceba (talk) 19:25, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Report backs and major take-aways from the April 10-13th, GLAM-Wiki 2015 Conference and AdaCamp 2015. OR drohowa (talk) 20:14, 29 April 2015 (UTC) (here's my etherpad)
 * Update on WikiProject Information Architecture event April 25 in Minneapolis 108.46.202.43 (talk) 13:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * State of the WMF: who? Res Mar 03:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
 * David Goodman - ArbCom report

Recaps and Announcements

 * ArtandFeminism Edit-a-thons
 * Wikipedia Day
 * AfroCrowd Edit-a-thons
 * Kicked off in February, events in March, April
 * Next event: AfricaCROWD in May, train-the-trainers on June 6th, Edit-a-thon on June 20th
 * WMNYC is the fiscal sponsor of AfroCROWD - we are interested in being the fiscal sponsor for other projects
 * Wikipedia Educators Network - WP:NYCEDU
 * 3-Day Wikipedia Conference in Washington D.C. (Columbus Day weekend in October), at the National Archives
 * Dilettante Army - doing an event on June 13th, interested in getting funding, Oracle Club in Long Island City
 * Edit-a-thon announcements (see Meetup page)
 * Should Wikimedia NYC have a staff person?
 * What would a staff person for WMNYC do?

Keynote
"Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies" - Shannon Mattern Link to Shannon Mattern's blog post of talk: Wikipedia Feminist Epistemology Take 2 at Babycastles
 * What are the epidemiological differences between Edit-a-thons - at MoMA and Babycastles?
 * Megan Prelinger of the Prelinger Library (SF) - from San Francisco to Outer Space
 * Suzanne Briet - making the case for 'grey literature'
 * What does it mean to be a Wikipedia subject? How does Wikipedia have meaning?
 * How does Wikipedia's aesthetics / architecture shape the way history is written off Wiki?
 * How to infuse feminist sensibility in non-content development ways?
 * How can Wikipedia show ways that ideas / history is developed collectively? [shoutout to linked Jazz project]
 * Q: What would feminist theory on the encyclopedia be?

Lighning talks

 * ONE - Alexi -
 * Wikimedia Foundation is undergoing a strategic reorganization i.e. recent "State of the Wiki" report released - annual report to be published this week
 * The Wikipedia Signpost (Wikipedia's largest internal newspaper) - open call for contributions
 * TWO - OR drohowa (talk)
 * Dorothy's Etherpad with notes here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/wGiX1dSCUd

Likely attendees

 * Pharos (talk) 18:46, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Aliceba (talk) 19:23, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Becksguy (talk) 06:50, 6 April 2015 (UTC) (at 7 PM)
 * BrillLyle (talk) 10:34, 6 April 2015 (UTC) Regrets, got sick so can't come.... Erika
 * Deckdeckdeck (talk) 13:52, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 *  DGG ( talk ) 07:07, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Lange.lea (talk) 15:32, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Siankevans (talk) 18:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Mozucat (talk) 18:43, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Nwhysel (talk) 19:24, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ronald Sexton (talk)
 * Megs (talk) 16:11, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * kosboot (talk) 02:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 *  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:53, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * OR drohowa (talk) 03:47, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 20:27, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * NYCJosh (talk) 22:13, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Res Mar 23:12, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Copeland.powell (Jordan!)
 * Vaparedes (talk) 23:26, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Possible attendees

 * Rhododendrites (talk) 20:11, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Newyorkbrad (talk) 03:23, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * ɱ   (talk  ·  vbm)  22:14, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Liz Read! Talk! 23:20, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Hadassahd (talk)
 * Bearian (talk) 00:55, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * A21sauce (talk)
 * WindingRoad (talk) 15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 18:49, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Djripley (talk) 05:21, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * oscarpoon168 (talk)

Regrets

 *  nafSadh did say 23:09, 4 April 2015 (UTC) Can't come on a weekday :(
 * HullIntegrity \ talk / 14:13, 7 April 2015 (UTC) - Teaching a class, darnit. :(
 * I unfortunately have classes on Wednesday from 6-7:15 PM and it's non-negotiable. Mitch 32 (The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.) 03:31, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll be able to attend some day. Probably on a day that I don't have examinations. Epic Genius (talk) 19:25, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Not only can I not make it this month, but as long as there are arrogant administrators who insist on ruining the structure of the articles we create, I probably wouldn't go even if I could. -User:DanTD (talk) 00:17, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Can't come except on weekends. RoyGoldsmith (talk) 07:57, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Anarchyshake (talk) 00:21, 19 April 2015 (UTC) I have class during these exact times :( Definitely interested in future events tho
 * Sorry. See you guys after the semester ends. -- Rangilo Gujarati ( talk ) 18:34, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Seriously thought about this but I'm just not up to this today. Daniel Case (talk) 20:27, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
 * BrillLyle (talk) 21:57, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
 * PointsofNoReturn (talk) 22:04, 29 April 2015 (UTC)